#substitute

And that's the bottom layer in old boxes: melancholy, an indefinable sense of loss. You dig around and it comes swirling up to the top ↗

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

#dreams

I wanted to make love in the rain, but owing to unfavorable (or, rather favorable) weather conditions, I took to the shower as a suitable substitute.
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— Jarod Kintz

#make-love #rain #sex #shower #substitute

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better. ↗

— George Santayana

#appear #argument #better #function #make

Ours is the age of substitutes: instead of language, we have jargon: instead of principles, slogans: and, instead of genuine ideas, bright ideas. ↗

— Eric Bentley

#bright #genuine #ideas #instead #jargon

Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be. ↗

— Mark Twain

#delete #editor #every #every time #inclined

I did end up doing substitute teaching, but there's not a lot of teaching involved in that. ↗

— Todd Barry

#doing #end #i #involved #lot

I admit that Post-it note sheets that adhere to virtually any surface are now my substitute of choice for retention. ↗

— Candice Bergen

#admit #any #choice #i #note

Debt, n. An ingenious substitute for the chain and whip of the slavedriver. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#debt #ingenious #substitute #whip

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important. ↗

— David F. Houston

#barley #directly #ease #feed #food

I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers. ↗

— Nancy Cartwright

#authorized #fire #i #i am #substitute